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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton by Stuart Macintyre
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Australian History
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the countrys regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patt ...Show more
Australian Lives : An Intimate History by Anisa Puri
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History
What is life like, in Australia? How has it been experienced by those who have lived it? The Australians. Australian Lives: An Intimate History illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how have we been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, i ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Natural History | Series: AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY
The Australian magpie is one of our nation's most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people.Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal behavi ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach -- summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' -- won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about re ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
'Me Write Myself' - The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 by Leonie Stevens
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed ...Show more
Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll by Stuart Coupe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Series: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll | Reading Level: near fine
This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets. Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They unload the ...Show more
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the ANZAC Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres – now known as Passchendaele – in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) in ...Show more
The Conscription Conflict and the Great War by Archer Damousi et al
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Australian History Ser.
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a ...Show more